GreekisChristian is going to flip out on you for using redneck. As a Southron gentlmuhn I am shoh that he much pre-fureth Gentry speech.

lol...my everyday writing is based on the styles of various 19th century southron authors...so I dont mind giving a go at copying the styles I have observed to be used by semi-literate 19th century soldiers

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"The liberties of people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." -- Patrick Henry

Yuh'ze raht as rain, GiC! In this here big city o' Birmin'am, Ah've gots to be uzin' dose big wuhdz fuh the folkz who gots the diplomas and edjumakshuns. So fo'gimme mah transgresshuns an' puttin' on airs; this hyar is th' same FrChris yo' knowed in skoo.

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"As the sparrow flees from a hawk, so the man seeking humility flees from an argument". St John Climacus

Yuh'ze raht as rain, GiC! In this here big city o' Birmin'am, Ah've gots to be uzin' dose big wuhdz fuh the folkz who gots the diplomas and edjumakshuns. So fo'gimme mah transgresshuns an' puttin' on airs; this hyar is th' same FrChris yo' knowed in skoo.

Well, I don't know about talkin' no redneck, but I do know I am from West Virginia on my Daddy's side and I can remember the family reunions in Alderson when I was a youngin'. And I do remember spendin' some time with cousin Daisy out behind the woodshed. I guess old traditions die hard.

Ah, this thread takes me back to the year I inadvertantly started saying y'all whilst sharing a house with three southerners (one from Kentucky, one from Alabama and one from Tennessee). Ironically, they were all employed in the UK as speech and language therapists. Mind you, I find it far more understandable than the Kiwis - I once was interviewed by one of those who identified herself as an Ocupieshunal Thirapust. Goodness knows what my accent sounded like by the end of that year - southern English laid over a Yorkshire substrate with nuggets of southern states must have sounded truly odd.

Anyway, I can understand y'all, but don't expect me to be able to join in.

James

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We owe greater gratitude to those who humble us, wrong us, and douse us with venom, than to those who nurse us with honour and sweet words, or feed us with tasty food and confections, for bile is the best medicine for our soul. - Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

Is this supposed to be funny? I don't think making fun of people is very Christian.

Self-depreciation is all in good fun.

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As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.-- Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS

'Fraid not, Fathah...y'see, Tennessee's gotta buffer in Kentucky, which never quaht came all the way down t'Dixie isseff. May o' been late in gettin' outta th'Union, but out she came! As fer Gore, well...all I can say is bless his heart...an' y'all from 'round here know what that means, so I'll jes' leave'r there...

Oh, nahw wait jes' a minute, suh...Ah'm without a doubt suthuhn, but I ain't no kahnda hillbilly. I do declare (proudly) that ah am a city boah. I got ennuf country in mah 'mediate fam'ly t'feel raht at home in smalltown, W. Texas, but pride in where we're from need not exclude those of us from places such as DFW, Adlanna, Richmun', Mon'gommry, etc.

'Fraid not, Fathah...y'see, Tennessee's gotta buffer in Kentucky, which never quaht came all the way down t'Dixie isseff. May o' been late in gettin' outta th'Union, but out she came! As fer Gore, well...all I can say is bless his heart...an' y'all from 'round here know what that means, so I'll jes' leave'r there...

Ah mint nowadays, Tinn'see is a buffah state, since Kintucky is now swallowered up by 'Hio (an' ah wint to school in Kintucky; Kintucky's fate is a sad thang, ah know...) but now Tinnessee is raht on the bordah, beset bah interlopers such as Mr. Go'.

God geeyiv 'em the strent' ta faht this interlopin'.

'Course in t'at maj'r dis'greement, only Ginny had more fightin' t'an Ten'ssee...but any Civ'l War buff would know t'at!

Also, since Kintucky trah'd to be a nation all's by themselfs in the Wah, but Mr Linc'in would hae none of t'at ("I'd like to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky" he once sayd) ah co'ld argue t'at Tinn'see was a bordah state 'n the Wah...jist borderin' the Com'nwealth, not the Union.

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"As the sparrow flees from a hawk, so the man seeking humility flees from an argument". St John Climacus